Last Wednesday MeroMero&More's favourite Kanazawa label Rallye released an excellent snapshot of today's Swedish semi-alternative music scene. I talked to Rallye´s Fuminori Chikakoshi, the Swedish coordinator Kristofer Lecander, aka Panache, and the participating Stockholmers of Lo-Fi-Fnk. The feature was aired last Wednesday by P3 Musikjournalen, and you can listen to it by clicking the "Onsdag" link on their homepage. That is until Wednesday August 31. It starts at around 34 minutes into the show and lasts for about 14 minutes.

If this makes you wanna hear more about Rallye, check out our feature show on the label here.

Read also the great article on Swim Sweet Swedish in the Swedish morning paper Sydsvenskan by Marcus Joons. It's not published on the web yet, but it should be up here any time soon I hope.

Earlier this summer I went to Paris and had the pleasant opportunity to have a chat with Alan Braxe, the excellent French house producer. Swedish public service radio's music show P3 Musikjournalen broadcasted the interview on Tuesday this week. You can listen to it until August 23 with RealPlayer by using this link and then clicking "Tisdag" on the left side of the page. The interview starts at around 37 minutes into the show and lasts for about 12 minutes.

He is not just the younger brother of Daft Punk's Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Play Paul also makes the funkiest electro at the moment. But what does he really think about Human After All?

"I love it.. hehe.. but I know that 90% of the people who talk about the album don't like it. I think the only people who like it used to listen to rock, and that's also why I love it!"

Paul is fed up with house and r'n'b. He accepts that he has a Justin Timberlake-like voice, and that he's not as much of a dancer as Michael Jackson. Yet. Hear him talk, sing and play!

If you're in Sweden or Denmark you can catch him live this week. Tonight Malmoe, tomorrow Stockholm and on Saturday Copenhagen.

Tahiti 80's singer talks about freesoul, high jumping and Minnie Riperton. The interview was made on April 5, 2005 and was originally broadcasted in the show Poptopia, Radio AF on April 15, 2005. There will also be a Japan-orientated part of this interview featured in a fortcoming MeroMero.

Tahiti 80's third album Fosbury is available in France, Belgium and Japan. Others can order it here or here.